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Setting brush options

Setting brush options - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting brush options

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[Instructor] In addition to the paint options to control the size and strength of the brush, we also have a window that let's us control the actual shape of the brush. Let's take a look. I'll select the train object, and in the freeform tab of the modeling ribbon, activate push/pull, I've got a size of eighty, strength of one and offset of ten. Go into the paint options and activate brush options. And this opens up a window that's kind of antique but it gives us the ability to change the actual brush shape. To demonstrate, I'll drag in place to create a default brush shape. You can't just hold the mouse down, you have to actually click and drag and keep the mouse moving in order to, sort of draw in place. And we can see that it resembles the "S" curve seen here. So that's our brush profile, that's the center of the brush and the edge of the brush. And there are some presets down here, we can try a linear preset. And it's hard to see with the grid-lines here, but we have a curve that…

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